I can attest that there are indeed many cases where $50 or $75 in bus or
gas money can make a big difference for volunteers, even in the United
States.
There is long way between intercontinental plane tickets and offering no
financial assistance at all.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Oliver Keyes <ironholds(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have a vested interest, as a community, in having
as diverse a
group of people behind our content as possible, because we have a
diverse group of readers. "People who can't afford a lunch out
whenever they want" is a demographic: a big one, depending on the
country in question. Coming up with statements that editathons go
great when the editor or newcomer in question covers all their
personal costs ignores the massive number of people who cannot afford
to do that and so will not attend. If your reaction to that is
discussions about studies or politically contentious plane tickets
then you've, at best, completely missed the point I was trying to
make.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 March 2015 at 14:33, Oliver Keyes
<ironholds(a)gmail.com> wrote:
...
expectations. So, yes, editathons work well when
attendees pay their own
way - but they work /best/ when they don't.
I believe there is no verifiable evidence that editathons work best
when attendees have all their costs paid. If there is, could someone
provide a link please?
There have been occasions where the way some attendees received
payments to attend, including flying in from other countries, has been
both politically contentious and anecdotally resulted in attendees
without funding being put off using their volunteer time to support
editathons run on the same basis. By "anecdotally" I include both this
being said to me and there being emails on various lists relating this
viewpoint.
Fae
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